Give the Gift of Broadway with Legacy Theatre’s Valentine’s Day Weekend Concert featuring Tony Award-winner J. Harrison Ghee and Grammy and Emmy Award-winner John McDaniel

Valentine’s Day is only one month away – do you have the perfect gift yet? Give your Valentine the gift of Broadway with tickets to Legacy Theatre’s Valentine’s Day Weekend Sunday Broadway Concert! On Sunday, February 16 at 2pm, Tony Award-winner J. Harrison Ghee, star of Broadway’s Some Like It Hot, Kinky Boots, Mrs. Doubtfire, and more, will take the Legacy Theatre stage for an intimate concert alongside Emmy and Grammy Award-winner John McDaniel at the piano. Tickets can be purchased through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org. With just over 100 seats, the Legacy Theatre is a uniquely intimate, state-of-the-art theatre to see a Tony award winner this up close and personal. Book tickets today for your special someone! Unable to join us on the 16th? Celebrate date night, any night, with a Legacy Theatre gift certificate available through the same channels. 

J. Harrison Ghee won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, making history as the first non-binary actor to be nominated and win in this category for their role as “Daphne/Jerry” in Some Like It Hot, a role which also garnered them Grammy, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as Drama League and Chita Rivera Award nominations. Most recently J. starred in the world premiere of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Ghee was selected by Billy Porter to star as “Robyn/Kevin” on the hit FOX series Accused and previously played the series regular of “Kwame” on Netflix’s Raising Dion. On Broadway, they starred as “Lola” in Kinky Boots, created the role of “Andre Mayhem” in Mrs. Doubtfire, and have dazzled audiences in roles such as “Velma Kelly” in Chicago and “Johnny Hooker” in The Sting, opposite Harry Connick, Jr.. Ghee hopes that something they do or say reaches the heart of at least one person to inspire them to dream big and go full-out for those dreams. 

John McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, John music directed and orchestrated Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC. John participated in a live Playbill concert event in Times Square welcoming back Broadway, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk, and Chuck Schumer. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald & Javier Muñoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. John directed Into The Woods and Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below, and Piano Men at Birdland. Broadway music credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway, and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. On Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones, and Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including five concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. John received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Tickets are also on sale now for the rest of the 2025 Sunday Broadway Concert Series, which boasts Tony, Grammy, Olivier, MAC, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winners, including Bonnie Milligan (Kimberly Akimbo, Head Over Heels) on March 2, Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can) on March 30, Euan Morton (Taboo, Hamilton) on April 13, Nicholas Rodriguez (Company, Tarzan) on July 13, Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line, Wicked) on September 7, and Karen Mason (Sunset Boulevard, Mamma Mia!) on October 26. Patrons interested in taking advantage of all the incredible talent coming to Legacy this season can subscribe and save with the 7-Show or Pick-4 Broadway Subscription packages, available now. Livestream ticket options are also available for all 2025 concerts. The Sunday Broadway Concert Series is generously supported by Jana and Tom Shea and sponsored in part by WMNR Fine Arts Radio. 

Learn more about all of Legacy Theatre’s 2025 offerings at LegacyTheatreCT.org or by calling (203) 315-1901. Single tickets are on sale now for all performances that have been announced, with subscription packages available for the Mainstage and Sunday Broadway Concert Series. 

The Legacy Theatre is located in the village of Stony Creek in Branford, CT, at 128 Thimble Islands Road. The Legacy Theatre is committed to providing live theatre and related programming that is accessible to the widest possible audience. Full accessibility and accommodations details can be found on Legacy’s website or by calling the Box Office. 

For more information on upcoming productions, classes, community events, and sponsorship and partner opportunities, please email Kiersten@LegacyTheatreCT.org.